You have taken yourself to be
something that you are not. You believe yourself to be a convoluted
mixture of physical and mental attributes. You have taken yourself to
be your body and your thoughts. You are neither of these, but rather
that from which body and thoughts arise. This misidentification is the
cause of all of your vexation and suffering.
At this time it is imperative that
you do the following:
Upon reaching the end of this
sentence, stop reading and for a minute or so, simply be aware of
your Self...
That awareness is Self.
When you became aware of Self, you
stopped thinking, your vision became unfocused on physical objects,
and focus went inward. This is the intuition of ≠ in
operation. You know deep down that you are neither anything physical
nor mental (Self has also been called “soul”) and when you search
for Self, focus shifts from mind and matter to rest on Self.
Self is what is in the middle of
the two mirrors of physical and non-physical experience.
You will have noticed that while
aware of Self, focus kept shifting onto thought. Thoughts will have
been popping in and out of awareness. This is caused by the shifting
of the focus of consciousness from mirror to mirror as it is
reflected back and forth between them.
The original mirror is the
physical realm in general, and the body more specifically. When
consciousness “entered” physical form and lost awareness of
Self/Reality, it projected a second mirror in an attempt to regain
Reality. That second mirror is thought.
Self is there all the time and you
are aware of It at times, but for the vast majority of the time you
are focused on either physical sensations/objects or thoughts. Having
so much of your focus on these mirror images makes the Self seem less
real and more transparent. If you observe your consciousness closely,
you will see that a thought will lead to an action and that action
will lead to another thought which subsequently will lead to another
action.*
*The cycle itself has been called
“samsara”. The workings of the cycle – the
tought-action-thought-action... – that drives the wheel of samsara,
has been called “karma”.
Your intuition is constantly
telling you deep deep down that you have forgotten something. You're
not quite sure what that something is, but the drive to find it is
the fundamental motivation for everything that you do. You are
constantly looking for Self/Reality. You look in one mirror hoping to
find that which you have forgotten, but all that happens is that the
mirror reflects consciousness back to the other mirror. Until the
spell is broken and your True Self (which is standing right in front
of both mirrors) is seen, your thoughts and
actions will continue
mirroring each other.
Another characteristic of the
cycle is that the interaction between the mirrors causes an
attractive force between them. The more intensely consciousness is
focused on a mirror, the greater the intensity of the interaction
between the mirrors and the greater the attractive force. The closer
the mirrors get, the higher the frequency at which consciousness will
be cycled between the two mirrors. This can produce exponential
growth in the attractive force, which in turn results in an
exponential increase in rate of attraction.
Humanity's consciousness is at the
very tip of the exponential curve.*
*The average human consciousness has 50,000 thoughts/day. A century ago the average human consciousness had 5000 thoughts/day. If the original thought occurred 50,000 years ago, expressed exponentially, present human consciousness is at the very tip.
The mirrors are rushing toward
each other at an unprecedented rate.
The mirrors are almost touching.
When the mirrors collide, a Big
thing happens – the beginning of another cycle of samsara.
Fortunately, you, the
individual representation of consciousness can transcend the big
cycle human consciousness is trapped within.
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